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Unexpected encounters abound on a train to California. A mysterious girl boards a bus in a small Pennsylvania town. A washed-up newspaper columnist watches his life slip away. A fog-bound October day in a mountaintop inn produces an epiphany. These are among the ten stories collected in this small but illuminating volume. Some stories are as brief as a few hundred words, while others are of more conventional length. Some are gritty, while others touch on the humorous. But all provide a distinctive take on life and the human condition that the reader will long remember and treasure.

The simple beauty of small town life contrasts with the consequences of modern growth, portraying the bittersweet nature of trying to capture an ideal that is just out of reach.